Tag Archives: Computers

I’ve finally gotten around to fixing my music server. One of the four hard drives died on my gourney out here, but thanks to the excellence of RAID 5 I haven’t lost any data (yet, anyway). Well, technically there are … Continue reading →

The IBM/SCO ordeal brought to light scary problems about copyright infringement. Namely, what happens if someone contributes copyrighted code to an open source project without permission from the copyright holder? Some months ago someone advised me against accepting patches for … Continue reading →

I’ve mentioned before that I want to set up a bunch of virtual machines running various Linux distributions so that I could build Gaim everywhere automatically. After talking with Christian Hammond (former Gaim developer, current VMWare employee), I decided to … Continue reading →

When developing software, any time you change a bit o’ source code you can type a paragraph or two describing the changes. This text is called a “commit message.” Sandy at work said my commit messages were good. Here’s my … Continue reading →

Well that was probably the most unique dining experience of my life. Mark Spencer (original Gaim author, original Asterisk author, and founder and president of Digium) sent out an email a few days ago asking if anyone was interested in … Continue reading →

Extreme Programming is a stupid buzzword for a bunch of programming techniques. Some of the techniques are old and some are new. Some are common sense and some are really dumb. This weekend I saw three Ferrari’s, two BMW M5s, … Continue reading →

When developing software, the tendency is to add a bunch of new features shortly before releasing a new version. But this is exactly backwards. New features should be added immediately after a release. Or, to state it another way, a … Continue reading →

Time for me to holler about a fantastic bit o’ open source software. It’s a program called Meld. It is by far the best graphical diff displaying tool I’ve ever seen. It’s simple, pretty, and functional. And now for some … Continue reading →